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Edit request: Clarify status of parent company Gowing Bros Limited

The article currently describes the historical Gowings department store chain, which closed its last store in January 2006, but does not address what became of the parent company, Gowing Bros Limited. The article notes the 2001 divestment ("Gowings divested the stores to an independent listed company, Gowings Retail (later G Retail), to enable them to concentrate on their investment and property interests") but does not follow through on the parent's continuing existence. Gowing Bros Limited remains listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker GOW and operates as an investment and property management company.

I propose adding the following section after the existing narrative about the closure of the retail business:

Continuing parent company

Following the 2001 divestment of its retail operations, Gowing Bros Limited continued to operate independently as an investment and property management company. It remains listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker GOW.

Disclosure: I am a paid contributor employed by Gowing Bros Limited. I have made the relevant disclosure on my user page in accordance with WP:PAID and the Wikipedia Terms of Use.

Gowings Employee (talk) 04:06, 8 May 2026 (UTC) Gowings Employee (talk) 04:06, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and its text needs to be durable. The text "It remains listed on the Australian Securities Exchange" may be true today but may not be so next year, or in thirty years. Once you have resolved your username issue (roles are not allowed under policy) feel free to propose more enduring text. Cabayi (talk) 09:00, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you — your point about durability is valid and reasonable.

I propose amending the text using Wikipedia’s {{As of}} template, to address the concern. Revised text:

==== Continuing parent company ====

Following the 2001 divestment of its retail operations, Gowing Bros Limited

continued to operate independently as an investment and property management

company. As of 2026, it is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange

under the ticker GOW.

Dorin at Gowings (talk) 01:29, 12 May 2026 (UTC) Dorin at Gowings (talk) 01:29, 12 May 2026 (UTC)